This Natalie Portman Doppelgänger Will Blow Your Mind

CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 17: Natalie Portman attends the "A Tale Of Love And Darkness" Photocall during the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival on May 17, 2015 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Mike Marsland/WireImage)

Originally written by Leah Melby Clinton for Glamour.com.

We love a good celebrity look-alike, but most of the time there's nothing surprising about them (like the woman who perfected Adele's eyeliner flick or the beauty blogger who's got Kylie Jenner's look down to a science—gorgeous girls, but both are enhancing similarities with makeup skills). The latest is a little more unexpected because, erm, the face getting compared to Natalie Portman's belongs to a man in Brooklyn. Now 24, Clyff's look-alike picture is from the sixth grade and started attracting attention from family and friends last year.

"About a year ago, my sister was browsing through family photo albums and she sent me a school picture of me from the beginning of sixth grade—I was 11," Clyff tells us. "I sent the photo around to my friends, but thought nothing of it." A roommate spotted the resemblance and doctored the side-by-side photo that caused a storm on Reddit earlier this week. "We were all shocked at how similar I looked to Natalie Portman at that age."

The similarities have faded with age, something he's bummed about ("unfortunately—I wish I still looked like her"). That's surely a sign of the maturity that comes with adulthood, as adolescent Clyff wouldn't have been quite so cool with all the attention. "I was embarrassed by how feminine I looked then," he shared. "I vividly remember going to a P.F. Chang's with my mother and sister and having the waiter approach the table and say, 'How are we doing ladies?' I was often mistaken for a girl between the ages of 10 and 13. At the time it bothered me, but now it's something I enjoy reminiscing about." The middle school pic has also proven to be a pretty nice icebreaker at cocktail parties.

While Clyff says he's never been asked whether he's related to the actress, we find it just a little hard to believe. Though the nearly identical look is strongest in the school shot, his bone structure still belies some Portman (he could convince us he was her brother, easily). Check out the below photo of him from now, plus another shot of him at age five. Contrast that with something from her baby book, and we guarantee we'd all be stunned.